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20. (1) Any person who― may, within a period of 90 days after such commencement by written notice to the administrator of the province in which his electoral division is situated, elect to be deemed to have eight years’ pensionable service, as so defined, and shall thereafter be entitled to pension benefits calculated in terms of such ordinance in respect of a period of pensionable service of eight years.

(2) There shall, in respect of the period deemed to form part of the pensionable service of the member by virtue of subsection (1), be paid by the relevant member to the relevant provincial revenue fund an amount calculated at 10 per cent of his pensionable salary immediately prior to the commencement of this Act, multiplied by the number of years and portion of a year which are so deemed to be pensionable service.

(3) Any provision in any law which provides for the payment of a pension or other benefit to the widow of a member of a provincial council shall apply mutatis mutandis to the payment of a pension or other benefit to the widower of a member of a provincial council.

(4) Any period of service which a member of a provincial council has completed as a member of Parliament and in respect of which he has received no Parliamentary pension, may be recognized for the purpose of determining his pension benefits as a member of the provincial council, provided he requests in writing the administrator of the province in which his provincial electoral division is situated, within 90 days after the commencement of this Act, that such period be so recognized.

(5) There shall, in respect of the period recognized in terms of subsection (4) as pensionable service of the member, be paid by the relevant member to the relevant provincial revenue fund, an amount calculated at 10 per cent of his pensionable salary immediately prior to the commencement of this Act, multiplied by